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We should colour our heart as clean as the sky

Our origin is a subtle essence from the divine source, and our nature is to merge with the infinite sky of consciousness.

We are a minute part of the whole sky, the first element. Our true nature is that vast, spotless sky, yet we do not know how we took form from the five elements. We must become one with this sky, without any blemish. Our earthly life is temporary; we come from the universe and return like a fleeting fly. Our karma pulls us down, yet we strive to rise. Through layers of being—waking, dreaming, and deep sleep—we navigate our karmic impressions. The key to self-knowledge and liberation is found through authentic spiritual guidance and practice within a genuine lineage. Ultimately, we must realize our true nature as that pure, boundless consciousness.

"Who am I? From where am I? But still, we know. We don’t know, but we know."

"We have to become one with this sky. There should not be any spot."

Filming location: Strilky, Czech Republic

O Madhya Bhagavān Śrī Alagpurījī, from the paramparā of the Satya Yuga until today, we are a very fine drip from the Himālaya, from Alagpurījī’s Kailāśa Parvata. That fine drip of water from there is Alagpurījī’s blessing for us. Since we are speaking of that prāṇa, the first element is ākāśa, and we are. We are just a very tiny part of the whole sky. Look today how beautifully clean this is for us, because this is the day of our Bhagavān Śrī Devpurījī. Śiva Śavarūpa, Allah Purījī is part of that. Today, his whole energy, everything is in this whole blue sky—Devpurījī. Bhagavāna Śrī Devpurījī, and from Alakpurījī, the energy is here for us in the form of the pure environment. Alak Purījī, of course, neither have I seen you, nor you me. But in the Himalayas, there are many, many glories, and it is said that Alakpurījī’s glaciers are called the capital glaciers of Alakpurījī. Nobody knows; only the stones, the glacier knows. We don’t know; I don’t know how we came into form. How we got these five elements, how we became in one sky. Now, today, we look into the sky, blue, but we don’t know how far, where, and how it is. We have to become one with this sky. There should not be any spot. Nothing can achieve that. For example, even try to calm these clouds. After the clouds, again, furthermore, the oxygen, what you call always. All the fire, air, earth. Earth is all beyond that sky. And we are a part, a very tiny of the tiny. We are from there, this Brahmaloka, skies. It means that they want to go again where I am from. It means they want to go where they come from. Who am I? They don’t know who we are. So, who am I? Who am I? From where am I? But still, we know. We don’t know, but we know. Which kind of key? How to get the key open? Even in here, in South India, there is one big temple and ashram from some great saint; we don’t know how many ages, and they have underground, and there are one after another the door, and these doors are not openable. And something they try, and what is there? Only gold and gold. And they tried to open it, but there was only gold and gold there. Did you hear about it? Do you know about it? Did you see it somewhere in the newspapers? No one can enter there, and we don’t know who is inside. They are also. And it was full of truckloads of gold, but that is just like here, our earth. Our Vasant wanted to bring the earth here now, and he said, "Swamiji, you said, ‘Yes, we put the earth.’" But our Gurubhai Vasanth, he said it like this. Yes, Swamiji Gurudev, what we can do, we will do. He doesn’t say no. And he makes all that he said very correct, and he will do it. But this earth is nothing for me and for you. But how many trucks will come? In that, there are more doors, and how many ages we don’t know, and how they constructed the doors. And the lock is not with the key, like that you can break the rock but not their door. And there have been one swāmī. And that we don’t know when it was, what his name was. You can come and go and see, and of course there are guards, so even that is only temporary. But even this is only temporary. The one who was there, whether it was he or she, is already gone. We came from the universe, and we are here for a few days, and then we will go again. Like a fly. How quickly it flies away. This sky is there, cannot achieve, because it has to be all qualities, is not acceptable. Feelings, hate, jealousy, anything good or bad, it is like ironing. We have one dress, nice, you clean, and then with the heat, we’re making the, but there is still remains some kind, or there, filter and filter, filter and filter, filter and filter. From there, our earth is like a very, very tiny one seed. Who are we? How did we come down? Now we would like to go. We try to go up. But our power, our karma, they let us go down again. You know, when we throw up, it comes down. Why? How is it coming? What is that? Gravity. But they will come. We will also go above this, our gravity. Then we are between, neither here nor there. We are hanging there, that’s all. Above that, again, there is something. There is another layer. They take all Indras, or whatever it is. All are still in that layer, and then, suddenly, a very tiny layer, a fine layer, very fine. And in that fine, then suddenly we go a little up, that you are Brahman. You become that Brahman. And that is Ālak Purījī’s and Dev Purījī’s achieved Dev Purījī. And he was that, he doesn’t want anything. He never asked anyone, "Give me." And if you give me means, give this and give it to that one. You have so much money, give it to me, and give to this poor person. Other merchants, should I give all? Who are you to give? And it is not yours. Take all. Throw it. Yes. He goes into his house. Five times more money, or whatever, is in his house. You know that in our Līlāmṛt book, Mahāprabhujī was sitting in the āśram of Kāṭhū, and there were some people who were singing bhajans with harmonium and mañjirās, and Devpurījī is coming. So the people were there, and there was some sound, very like some heavy rain or wind, but nothing to see. Only blue sky and Mahāprabhujī is here. Prabhujī said, "Don’t worry, it is coming, Śiva Devpurījī." And then Devpurījī was riding the horse, but in the sky, not on the ground. And then it was only a horse, and it is like this: someone comes, some minister or a very important person, and somebody is coming to check if there is something wrong. And then they see Devapurījī, but Devapurījī was holding out in his stomach, outside, inside. And Devpurījī was holding like this, and then the horse is still in there. And then he’s riding, Devpurījī. Then they said, "Oh, so Mahāprabhujī said, ‘Be careful, don’t worry, it is Śiva.’" Some people tried to run away, but Mahāprabhujī was folded hands. But Mahāprabhujī stood there with his five hands. A few people fled. And then Devpurījī appeared, and Mahāprabhujī was standing in praṇām. Devpurījī was like in other power, and he said the name of Mahāprabhujī. Only Deep named the Deep and said, "What are you doing here?" We are singing, "Name your name." No, no,... what is there? So people were giving donations, that was silver canes, and in that time they were using silver coins, and there were things that people gave as gifts. So it was about 3, 4 kilos, or 5 kilos, or 10 kilos, or something like this. Bring all back deep. And Devpurījī cut it, these all silver coins, little, little pieces. He made it like a chapati flower, and he threw it there. Then he came back. Mahāprabhujī didn’t say anything. Then Devapurījī said, "Gurudev, what are your miracles?" Because all your disciples around the whole world, for them I spread the money, and so they will take all. And then, all Mahāprabhujī’s disciples, the real disciples, they have nothing missing. They are not poor. All people, they know that. That is set like he became like a sky, and I have in my letter, Our Holy Gurujī wrote a letter to me, and then I also wrote. And then the telephone comes. So Gurujī called me only, I also called, so writing, writing,... finished. But what is written there, Holy Gurujī was writing beautifully. First, he’s telling me, you know, like, "My dearest, yeah, my dearest of my heart." And so letters are there in Zep when we are in ashram. And so one day, a letter comes there about ten days, five days. That’s it. And sometimes a telephone from here to Vienna, to India, it takes three days. We have sent a message to London. In London, they go with the oceans. The cables are through oceans and coming to Delhi or Kolkata, and then they will transfer to Jaipur, and from Jaipur to some district in the villages. So when I asked in Vienna, they said that now we will send a message to London, and it will take three days, so please wait. And then, half a day before, they said that at that time you must be there. And so I was waiting, Guruji was waiting. Guruji has no telephone, so he went to his bhaktas. And Guruji was making mālā all the time and sitting, and if there was a telephone for some person, and when his telephone was ringing, Guruji said, "Is it Mahesh?" Gurujī said, "Gurudev, it will come." And then the telephone came. Train, train,... train. What is that? It is said from Calcutta that your telephone is not in condition. Sorry. OK. Then when can we? He said, "We don’t know." Again, you can send a message, or they will send you a message. Bye-bye. Click. And sometimes when I was in Czechoslovakia and Hungary, it took five, six days. Or not at all. That means, they said, Don’t make disturbances. We should live happy days. We will write a letter, okay? Now we have telephone even near our sleeping bag. So one day I tell you, this is our Bhagavān Śrī Devpurījī. So Gurujī sent me a letter. "My dear Maheśvara Nanda Purī Mahārāj." Gurujī was making jokes, I think. "Today, Devpurījī came at 11 or 12 o’clock in the morning. Holy Gurujī was making prayer mālās for Mahāprabhujī in the morning, lunch time for Devapurījī, and in the evening again for Mahāprabhujī. So, Mahesh said, 'I became great, I am liberated.' Devpurījī came. First came sound like an aeroplane. And then he knew that it was Devpurījī. Then Devpurījī came. Holi Guru Ji said, 'My Lord, how great that you come here. Where are you going?' Devpurījī said, in the name of Gurujī, 'Madhavānand, I am going to my Maheśvarānand. He is in some difficulties, and I want all my bhaktas there, and I give the maheś there.' So I was going in the sky. And I saw that my bhakta, my disciple Madhavananjī, and I just gave you a blessing." That letter is in Vienna, written by Holy Gurujī’s hands, and that day when there was something, it became all beautiful. So there are these called Siddhas, the above Siddhas to Siddhas, and then we found it. Our Alak Purījī doesn’t matter how we are, my dear. We will be like that dress which is dirty, we throw it away because we are pure inside. So, everyone, you have that in color in your heart, and that color is like what we call the sky blue, clean. So there are many. Many such great, great saints are here also. They are not appearing physically, maybe sometimes with some wind, and we don’t know what it is in the dream. And when we go to our dream, so there are three layers of our being, and this is... That is one, the physical body, in which we say jagrita: we are awakened, we are working, we are driving, so we are there, and this is called, we call it the jāgrata, awareness. And after that is called suṣupta, dreaming. Sleeping, and after that, svapna, jāgrata, suṣupta, and svapna, these are the layers. This is our level; we can’t go more with our dream. We go many things and different things, so those who... Are you dreaming very much with the problems, fearing negatives, many things? This is our svapna, meaning that inside us, our karmas are showing you that after your life, you will come to the svapna that you will see again. And our dream, no one can catch us. And neither can you catch us. But you or we, we are in the dream. And there is no one for you. Sometimes difficult things come, sometimes good things. There are many negative and positive aspects, but do we know that we are aware? So we are aware as long as we are awakened. But in this way of looking, we are aware. We are in one bag, and inside this bag, we are on the earth. There, all animals and we all are caught in one plastic bubble, and it’s taking us here and there. Or suddenly we are sleeping. We think, ah! But we don’t know who is now walking on us. We say, "I’m sleeping." Very good. But you know, how many are there? For example, when you are sleeping, the spider, and they don’t wake you, they are so nice that we can’t even feel our skin, and it sucks your blood. Also, you don’t know, and that goes away after itching. How many days? How many lives? Only that spider. There are different kinds of spiders, yes. They come. Hello? That we call such a dream good or bad. Somewhere it is good. Our grandmother, our grandmother. Our mother, my father, how is my all this that is good? Or, you know, in the dreams, my grandmother was not good to my mother. And mother, grandmother is coming now with the stick in the dream. And you are running in your room. A vy utíkáte do svého pokoje, and she is standing at the door. A ona tam stojí ve dveřích, and with the stick. There are dreams. But there is definitely, your grandmother will not come in my dream. Yes. So that we know that it’s still in that consciousness. And so, it is how we go about that. So from this, and now, whatever we have, it is our karma, karma, karma. So we practice through our prayers and meditations. In every country in the world, they have some God. And how you have done. So, for example, Bhagavān Rām. He never makes problems for anyone, and nobody kills. But some different people, they have a god, but God is good. But many other people, they are fighting for their religion, killing them, and that will come back again. Because this Kali Yuga, which is here, will be more and more terrible. In one of the scriptures, someone talks that cows and animals will not get any more milk. A child is born, but there is no milk. How will it happen? I hope before that Allahpurījī, Devpurījī, they will again make it good, so we will do it. And so, in this way, we have to ask, do you know what you have done today? Good, bad, not bad, good, anything. You have done, in my opinion, you are all positive. But not the corona. Corona, we are negative, not positive. For him it is positive, but we are negative, because we don’t have such karmas there. Then, whatever you did, you go to sleep. Now, this is for yogīs in yoga practice and all who say, "I am a great master, and I am a great master." That is, how do you know in which second you turn from awakened to asleep? And if you know that, "I know now I have slept and I am asleep," that’s what we call—what do we call?—the yoga nidrā. Mahāprabhujī’s book has beautifully written about this. Perhaps tomorrow I will translate that: how is this sleep, how to awake, and I will tell you. But how to give and train that? I know that I have a beautiful car. Someone gave me the key, someone gave the petrol, and someone put it near the road. "This is your car." But I never turned my car on. How will I do it? That’s it, so we have to learn with that kind of gurus, and guru is everyone. And in Europe, there are more strict gurus. Many people are going by motorbike, and three or four children. And one child is in the front, and no one has a helmet. And here in Czech or in Vienna, the police will say, "Get out." Where is your certificate? I don’t know. Where is your helmet? Why is your little child in the front? And one in the lap of the child of mother, and mother is sitting on one side. Here they will take moped away and everything away. Mess you’ve got a bit onto motor coolness above early check, no? So this is how people are. So in India, anyone will go to an electric wire and cut it with their mouth, and put it here and then put it there. Jugaad. But jugaad can also kill you. Here in Europe or in many countries, if you have studied electronics, then they can give you an instrument; otherwise, they will give you to the police. So many good masters there, for cycling, for electric, for swimming; everything is a guru’s. We call guru, and you call teacher. That’s all. It’s a language. But there are many different kinds of gurus. You see, for example, now medical, and surgeon, doctor. And he can cut your stomach through, and do something, and close again. You can be that. I’m also a guru, but please don’t give the knife in the hand. So Holī Gurujī used to say, next to God is the doctor. So that is the guru. And don’t tell that he’s the doctor; only we call him the doctor. But we call the guru. So, my dear, every one of you has that knowledge and sense in it. Similarly, the spiritual gurus, and there are many, many only on the surface. But when you go to the border from one country to another country, then you take your passport. And if he says, "I have no passport, I go," he said, "Yes." Police, take him there. Where is your passport? My home. Then bring it. He writes himself on paper. You are bad. So even our passport, you know how important it is. Similarly, in yoga, in spirituality, that guru’s real stamp is not yours. It is your country, and your country is not from today. Many, many years there, it is like this, so the stamp of the Czech Republic, yes. Where are you going? There is my passport. I am Czech. Yes, you can check it. Yes. Mr. Swami, where are you going? Where is your passport? India. Swami? That. Where is my visa inside? Yes, Czech visa. Yes. Good. Please go. Similarly, all yogīs, they are doing āsanas and talking only about things. But you should have your paramparā of Guru. And therefore Gurū Dev is the greatest one. And so we come there. So first we have to master our awakening, everything good, then sleeping, how and then dreaming. How do you go and dream, and how can you quickly come? God has given that you have some kind of dream, and it is something very nice, all beautiful. And suddenly, your dog sleeping outside, and the dog said, "Pop!" And the dream, my so beautiful dream I had, so I enjoyed that. There is nothing. This is, and dream comes quickly, dream goes there. Dream is a power, so mind power that mind will bring you wrong this there everywhere. So therefore. In Rāja Yoga, there, Holī Gurujī has bhajan. God bless you all.

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